One of the great episodes in the history of mathematics began on October 23, 1852. In a letter to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Augustus De Morgan wrote, “A student of mine asked me today to give him a ...
Have you ever tried to do the brainteaser below, where you have to connect the dots to make the outline of a house in one continuous stroke without going back over your lines? Or perhaps you've ...
In 1950 Edward Nelson, then a student at the University of Chicago, asked the kind of deceptively simple question that can give mathematicians fits for decades. Imagine, he said, a graph — a ...
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